John J. McRae

John Jones McRae (10 January 1815-31 May 1868) was a US Senator from Mississippi (D) from 1 December 1851 to 17 March 1852 (succeeding Jefferson Davis and preceding Stephen Adams), Governor from 10 January 1854 to 16 November 1857 (succeeding John J. Pettus and preceding William McWillie), and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MS 5) from 7 December 1858 to 12 January 1861 (succeeding John A. Quitman and preceding Legrand W. Perce).

Biography
John Jones McRae was born in Sneedsboro, North Carolina in 1815, and he moved with his parents to Winchester, Mississippi two years later. He went on to serve as a Democratic state legislator before serving in the US Senate from 1851 to 1852, as Governor from 1854 to 1857, and in the US House of Representatives from 1858 to 1861. McRae went on to serve in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War, and he died while visiting his brother in exile in Belize City, British Honduras in 1868.